“Those fast-moving positive charges should generate a very strong magnetic field, predicted to be 10 18 gauss,” co-author ...

"Those fast-moving positive charges should generate a very strong magnetic field, predicted to be 10 18 gauss," said Gang Wang, a STAR physicist from the University of California, Los Angeles.

The spin–orbit interaction is a relativistic effect whereby an electric field in the crystal is experienced by a moving electron ... to a charge current in a non-magnetic material.

While shifting is not a rare occurrence, the pole is moving both faster and differently than it was before, raising questions about the planet's magnetic field. If the Earth's field is disrupted ...